Nowadays, availability, durability, reliability, weight and strength, as the most important factors in optimum engineering design, are responsible for the widespread application of plates in the industry. Buckling in the elastic or elastoplastic regim is one of the phenomena that can be occurred in the axial compressive loading. Using Galerkin method on the basis of trigonometric shape functions, the elastoplastic dynamic buckling of a thin rectangular plate with different boundary conditions subjected to compression exponetiail pulse functions is investigated in this paper. Based on two theories of plasticity: deformation theory of plasticity (DT) with Hencky constitutive relations and incremental theory of plasticity (IT) with Prandtl-Reuss constitutive relations the equilibrium, stability and dynamic elastoplastic buckling equations are derived. Ramberg-Osgood stress-strain model is used to describe the elastoplastic material property of plate. The effects of symmetrical and asymmetrical boundary conditions, geometrical parameters of plate, force pulse amplitude, and type of plasticity theory on the velocity and deflection histories of plate are investigated. According to the dynamic response of plate the results obtained from DT are lower than those predicted through IT. The resistance against deformation for plate with clamped boundary condition is more than plate with simply supported boundary condition. Consequently, the adjacent points to clamped boundary condition have a lower velocity field than adjacent points to simply supported boundary condition.